Impossible-to-Fire Teachers
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 27th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Impossible-to-Fire Teachers
John Stossel, FOX Business
February 25, 2010 07:24 AM EST by John StosselLast night I blogged about the Rhode Island school district that got up the courage to fire their teachers' union. Unfortunately, reform isn't going as well in my town. The NY Times has a surprisingly fair article this week about the near-impossibility of firing an NYC public school teacher:[I]n the two years since the Education Department began an intensive effort to root out such teachers from the more than 55,000 who have tenure, officials have managed to fire only three for incompetence. Ten others whom the department charged…
Health Care: Hiding Spending Doesn’t Reduce Spending
Rep. Paul Ryan
Rep. Paul Ryan says the health care bill put forward by Democrats is full of “gimmicks and smoke and mirrors.”
D.C. Should Stay Out of the Car Business
David Harsanyi, Denver Post
Toyotas have minds of their own, apparently. But not to worry. The U.S. government will smite the robotic menace — and the company's profits along with it.As one Lexus-driving victim stated at a recent congressional committee hearing, “Shame on you, Toyota, for being so greedy.” Receive news alertsIndeed. Greed has reared its ugly head again. Shame on Toyota for consistently selling cars we want to buy. Shame on Toyota for employing thousands of Americans and building those unseemly factories. Shame on the company for perfecting the mass production of environmentally friendly…
What Happened to J-O-B-S?
Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times
« Previous Post | Top of the Ticket Home | Next Post » Remember in the messy, fingerpointing aftermath of the Democratic debacle in the Massachusetts Senate election, President Obama said that after nearly a year of healthcare speeches, healthcare town halls and secret healthcare legislative meetings, he'd gotten the message and for 2010 his Job One was what Joe Biden calls that three-letter word: J-O-B-S?Well, that voter-driven focus lasted about a week. Now here we are today with another carefully stage-managed healthcare summit across the street from the White House because there…
Time Has Come for Confrontation
Bob Shrum, The Week
Bipartisanship died at the Health Care Summit. The president can continue to reach out—that’s good politics at a time when Gallup reports that 54 percent of Americans don’t expect the GOP to make a “sincere” effort to achieve compromise on health reform. But as he reaches out, the president also has to draw clear dividing lines. He did that at the summit. After listening to the other side obfuscate, deceive, and spurn common ground, he said, “I don’t know if we can bridge” the differences. He knew that it…
